Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wigginsis an award-winning American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 September 1947
CountryUnited States of America
children thinking years
I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
art sadness people
...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
speak-your-mind mind speak
You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.
eye thinking faces
You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
fleeting answers
There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.
water gold use
Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.
thinking should frightened
I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.
writing silence needs
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
children thinking curiosity
I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
world want
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
turns turn-to-god
I will never turn to God.
writing language canvas
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
rocks car narrative
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
book reading asking
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.